“The jobs gap between black and white workers is a story that we’ve seen for more than 50 years, but this report shows that unemployment rates for Black workers have not fallen as much as they have for their white and Latino counterparts,” said Steven Pitts, a labor policy specialist at the center and author of the report.

The report also found when black women and black men are examined separately, black female unemployment rates rose, while black male unemployment rates fell.

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